Our Team

Annette is a highly accomplished senior gas operations leader with more than 35 years of experience driving operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and strategic initiatives within the natural gas industry.

Throughout her career, including within key roles at Northeast Ohio Gas, Hope Gas, and NiSource, Annette has consistently demonstrated an impressive ability to manage complex, multimillion-dollar budgets; implement pipeline safety and integrity programs; lead union and workforce relations; and ensure the safe delivery of natural gas to hundreds of thousands of customers. She is an expert in navigating stringent regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency across all operations. 

Barker began her career in the industry as a supervisor of field operations with NiSource and went on to serve as its operations manager. She was branch manager for DNOW Distribution NOW and spent several years with Dominion Energy West Virginia as a supervisor of gas operations and then as a senior gas safety and training specialist. Her most recent position before joining NEO was as manager of gas operations for Hope Gas, where she oversaw gas distribution operations and compliance and integrity programs and directed resources and outage restoration efforts.